Promoting forests at the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

Mon, 03 Feb 2014

Forests can be a path to acheiving global development goals. They will be part of the discussion this week at the 8th Open Working Group on Sustanable Development Goals at the United Nations in New York.

Photo: My Forest |Our Future

Forests are essential for the survival of people everywhere. They nurture, inspire, and shelter.

They can also, incidentally, provide a sustainable path for achieving difficult development goals, like eradicating global poverty or increasing food security in the world’s most vulnerable regions.

Forests are also beautiful - in support of the working group discussions, the winners from this year’s International Forest Photograph Awards will be featured at the My Forest |Our Future Exhibition at the Gabarron Foundation all month. They will be well worth visiting.

For live news on the discussions this week - be sure to follow UN Sustainable Development on Twitter all week (@SustDev).